This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 206 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 206 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which word is defined as "the message about life or human nature the author shares" ? A) Metaphor. B) Theme. C) Allusion. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 2. A partial or imperfect rhyme, often using assonance or consonance only, as in dry and died or grown and moon. Also known as half rhyme, near rhyme, oblique rhyme, and slant rhyme. A) End rhyme. B) Off rhyme. C) Internal rhyme. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Off rhyme. 3. If two words ALMOST rhyme, it is called ..... A) Close rhyme. B) Near rhyme. C) Almost rhyme. D) Next rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Near rhyme. 4. Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. Which statement best describes the theme of this poem? A) Change is precious and exciting. B) Change will happen, and every moment is precious. C) Change should be feared and avoided. D) Change is boring and unnoteworthy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Change will happen, and every moment is precious. 5. What the speaker feels about the subject The word is ..... A) Imagery. B) Tone. C) Speaker. D) First-person point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 6. The writer of a poem is called ..... /El escritor de un poema se llama ..... A) Poet. B) Illustrator. C) Author/autor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poet. 7. This is the use of rhyming words within a line. A) End rhyme. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Internal rhyme. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Internal rhyme. 8. A set or group of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes A) Quatrain. B) Tercet. C) Stanza. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quatrain. 9. I can't go to the game tonight due to the tons of homework my teacher assigned. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 10. A group of lines together in a poem, like sentences in a paragraph. A) Stanza. B) Haiku. C) Verse. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 11. Anaphora A) A four-line stanza. B) The use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence (to avoid repetition). C) The repetition, at close intervals, of vowel sounds. D) Words that look alike but do not sound alike. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence (to avoid repetition). 12. A rose is a ..... of love. A) Theme. B) Tone. C) Symbol. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol. 13. Which of the following is an example of a symbol in poetry? A) Buzz. B) Water = New Life. C) The waffle jumped up out of the toaster. D) The news took me by surprise. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water = New Life. 14. Words that appeal to the sight, hearing, smell, taste, and/or touch A) Sensory detail. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory detail. 15. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent words A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Speaker. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 16. The appearance of words, capital letters, lines, and stanzas on the page A) Graphical elements. B) Limerick. C) Poem. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Graphical elements. 17. Which should you do first when SIFTing/analyzing a poem? A) Notice the layout/form of the poem on the page. B) Determine the theme. C) Decide the speaker's tone. D) Identify assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Notice the layout/form of the poem on the page. 18. Voice A) Poet, speaker, poitn of view, tone. B) Sound, imagery, figurative language. C) Patterns at the end of the lines of a poem. D) Arrangement or structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poet, speaker, poitn of view, tone. 19. What are two rhyming lines normally called? A) Stanza. B) Verse. C) Line. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Couplet. 20. The Class of 2022 is one of the smallest in the last 20 years. How many students? A) 30. B) 34. C) 38. D) 42. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 34. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPoetry Terms Quiz 1Poetry Terms Quiz 2Poetry Terms Quiz 3Poetry Terms Quiz 4Poetry Terms Quiz 5Poetry Terms Quiz 6Poetry Terms Quiz 7Poetry Terms Quiz 8Poetry Terms Quiz 9Poetry Terms Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books